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* This trope led to one of the biggest advertising mishaps ever: "An unfair comparison between the Mustang and the Javelin." In this 1968 magazine ad, American Motors proudly compared their new Javelin to the Ford Mustang. Aside glossy photos of both cars, the sparse ad copy stressed laughably petty things like "the Mustang's thin blade bumpers don't photograph well" and "our Javelin lists for no more than the Mustang." And the Mustang just plain looked better. To make matters worse, AMC ran the same ad for their Ambassador (vs. the Rolls-Royce), the Rambler (vs. the popular Volkswagen bug), and two other cars. So not only did AMC spend millions of dollars on slick, effective ads that made their competitors' cars look better, they did so ''to their entire product line''. See the Javelin ad [http://www.adspast.com/store/skin1/images/pics32/amc672mustjavelin.jpg here].
* A car commercial attempting to advertise itself on the concept of creativity and "thinking differently" has the narrator talking about how his mother let him play with dolls and bought him a sewing machine, daring to break gender roles. The problem? The narrator takes [[Camp Gay]] [[Up to Eleven]]. To a parent struggling with such concepts, the commercial basically says "Reinforce your son's masculinity or he'll turn into a lisping fairy!"
* An insurance commercial had a woman talking about buying a new car, driving it home, and promptly smashing it into a tree. Her insurance company then had the ''audacity'' to raise her rates... except, you know, anyone who would drive a new car off the lot and immediately wrap it around a tree is what is called a "bad risk" in the insurance industry, and ''every'' insurance company would raise her rates over it. Yes, even the one being advertised, most likely they'd just do it by some more indirect method.
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